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100

This is the first established US cabinet agency.

What is the Department of State?

100

This international organization has 6 official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

What is the United Nations?

100

The name of the government on the island of Taiwan.

What is the Republic of China? 中華民國

100

This international organization preceded the United Nations, widely seen as a “failure”.

What is the League of Nations?

100

This right-populist political faction is unpopular among other German parties.

What is the AfD?

200

This Russian mercenary group led a march on Moscow in 2023.

What is Wagner Group?

200

This location in Syria is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, dating back to at least 3,000 BCE.

This location in Syria is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, dating back to at least 3,000 BCE.

200

This title is given to the head of the monarchy in Iran prior to the 1979 revolution.

What is the Shah? شاه

200

This Supreme Court case ruled that separating children on the basis of race in schools was unconstitutional.

This Supreme Court case ruled that separating children on the basis of race in schools was unconstitutional.

200

Many countries share a land or maritime border with Estonia, but this is the only one that speaks a related language.

What is Finland?

300

This IU alumnus, former CIA Director, and Secretary of Defense.

Who is Robert Gates?

300

The human rights treaty adopted by the UN in 1979 aims to eliminate discrimination against women.

What is CEDAW?

300

The section of the orchestra in which the piano belongs to.

What is the percussion section?

300

This Broadway musical tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

What is Hadestown?

300

This 20th-century thinker wrote Democracy in America but warned about “soft despotism.”

Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?

400

This discipline of intelligence gathering relies on publicly available information, such as newspapers or social media.

What is open source intelligence (OSINT)?

400

This French word is associated with a strategic approach that Nixon favored to ease strained relations between countries.

What is détente?

400

The current president of Taiwan.

Who is (William) Lai Ching-te? 赖清德

400

This was an ancient Greek religious sanctuary and shrine dedicated to the god Apollo.

What is the Oracle of Delphi?

400

The concept that laws are only valid if they are enacted by a legitimate authority and accepted by the people, often contrasted with natural law, is known as this theory.

What is legal positivism?

500

This former Secretary of State plays in a rock band and has a stage name reminiscent of a Mount Rushmore president.

Who is Anthony Blinken (ABlinken)?

500

This southern Syrian governorate is the only with a Druze majority population.

What is Sweida?

500

The effect that Soviet RBMK nuclear reactors operated on to generate energy.

What is a positive void coefficient reactivity? Реакция положительного коэффициента пустотности

500

This is the largest and oldest human rights organization in Poland – located in Warsaw, Poland.  

What is the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights?

500

Thomas Aquinas outlined three main conditions for a just war: legitimate authority, just cause, and ________.

What is right intention?